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Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc
To promote and facilitate philanthropy in our area with creative grants, demonstrating community leadership, and advising donors of community concerns to bring the highest benefit for our community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of CHILLICOTHE-ROSS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $390,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $540,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $149,604 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUB | $38,500 |
| VETERANS CARE NETWORK | $37,293 |
| GREATER EUROPE MISSION | $23,200 |
| COLUMBUS SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| ORPHAN'S PROMISE | $18,700 |
| PIKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND INC | $17,500 |
| HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC | $17,108 |
| CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC | $13,000 |
| ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,200 |
| PORTSMOUTH AREA LADIES INC | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MTMAJESTIC THEATRE INC4× · 2017–2021 · $145k · revenue +187% · 33% of their budget
- TSTHE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +2% · 27% of their budget
- CSCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ACASBURY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $119k · revenue +4%
- BCBROOKSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $38k
- PHPUMP HOUSE ART GALLERYone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -68%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission is to advance, encourage, and promote the industrial, economic, commercial and civic development of ross county, ohio and the city of chillicothe.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
To advance area businesses and facilitate action on local issues of concern.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
The ross county water company, inc. is a non-profit, user-member owned corporation, that provides quality residential and commercial water service to approximately 15,504 customers in areas of ross, pike, pickaway, vinton, hocking, &…
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
To inspire, gather, and activate followers of jesus to pursue the common good in our city.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
An animal rescue and adoption organization serving the greater ross county ohio community
The ross county social service council provides support for disadvantaged teens in the greater ross county ohio community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Scioto Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MAJESTIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SCIOTO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Chillicothe Civic Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CHILLICOTHE ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHOLD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE CAVALIER CLUB ↗
- Who funds VETERANS CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECREATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHILLICOTHE OHIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Ross County ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OHIO STORYTELLING INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS IN TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds PUMP HOUSE ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rides 4 Refugees Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASSISTANCE HOUSE OF ROSS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of South ↗
- Who funds United Fund of Jackson County Inc ↗
- Who funds ADENA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUCK FIFTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: David Meade Massie Trust · Community Foundations Inc · United Way of Ross County Inc · Adena Health System · Columbus Foundation · Ross-Chillicothe Convention and Visitors Bureau · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · American Electric Power Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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